Should AS drop Family Guy and American Dad?

While I understand that the Adult Swim reruns were very important to Family Guy's return, I think its time for it to leave Adult Swim, as its reruns are already being aired on TBS and Syndication anyway, and all it is now is just filler for the block. Ditto American Dad (King of the Hill, Cleveland Show and Bobs Burgers can stay as i dont believe they're being aired anywhere, and KOTH is pretty much the only show they can air at 8/7 central). I'd much rather they replace those slots with something like Venture Brothers, Rick and Morty (they're pretty much the most critically acclaimed AS shows, why not give them a weeknight slot), or even replace them with a nightly 2 hour version of Toonami.

Excellent point - Family Guy is no longer exclusive to FOX and Adult Swim, it's EVERYWHERE. It's no longer special to Adult Swim. And it's seriously overplayed.

.....but how would they fill those slots? Adult Swim just takes up too many hours in the evening. They really need to give some hours back to Cartoon Network.

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Family Guy isn't overplayed on AS though. 2 hours a night and the second hour is just a rerun of the first later in the night.

Also, to the first post, both Cleveland Show and Bobs Burgers are on TBS as well.

Adult Swim will not get rid of these shows because they get really good ratings. Unless they lose the license, but I doubt that happens anytime soon. Adult Swims ratings would struggle big time without them IMO.

As much as I hate Family Guy (I can tolerate with American Dad, though), both shows aren't clearly going nowhere anytime soon. They still bring great ratings to AS, thus AS will struggle if they both left.

I think we have different interpretations on how much equals "overplayed".

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Guess so, but 2 hours a night isn't really overplayed. Bobs Burgers is on for an hour and a half and there's no way that's overplayed. Plus it helps that in both cases the airings are broken up throughout the night.

I agree. They should. Adult Swim played these types of shows (Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, King of the Hill, American Dad) for years. Literally. You would think that since they're not exclusives and can be watched anytime anywhere on demand people would have enough of them. Yet they are still doing decent numbers and because of that Adult Swim airs them even though they could devote those slots to something more original - new third party shows, old third party shows, their own shows, more anime, etc. But no. Glue it is.

@StorytellerMJ5 2 hours is 4 episodes in a row every night. That is overplayed.

You're complaining about two hours of Family Guy (half of it being a repeat in the middle of the night, when barely anyone watches), when the same channel is airing 5 hours of Teen Titans GO! during the day.

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As much as I think they're overplaying the Fox shows, I'll concede that they're too much of a ratings hit for Adult Swim to let go of them.

I think it would be better if they downsized the shows instead of dropping them outright. I think they would be better in half-hour increments as opposed to a full hour. That way, they wouldn't hog up so much of the network.

While I understand that the Adult Swim reruns were very important to Family Guy's return, I think its time for it to leave Adult Swim, as its reruns are already being aired on TBS and Syndication anyway, and all it is now is just filler for the block. Ditto American Dad (King of the Hill, Cleveland Show and Bobs Burgers can stay as i dont believe they're being aired anywhere, and KOTH is pretty much the only show they can air at 8/7 central). I'd much rather they replace those slots with something like Venture Brothers, Rick and Morty (they're pretty much the most critically acclaimed AS shows, why not give them a weeknight slot), or even replace them with a nightly 2 hour version of Toonami.

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Actually, TBS also runs American Dad, and the MyNetworkTV affiliate in Albany NY has the rights to Cleveland Show, King of the Hill, & a former [as] property, Futurama, among other things, so King & Cleveland are in syndication.

I'd rather be bold and put Toonami in prime time as a bridge to [as], but that's just me.

One FOX cartoon that Adult Swim really needs to drop is the mediocre Cleveland Show. It wasn't popular to begin with (unlike the other FOX cartoons), and it's just too lame and boring in comparison to nearly all of AS' lineup. And it's not just because I hate it, but nobody really talks about it.